Film Star Brian Cox Caught Doing 98mph

HOLLYWOOD star Brian Cox was fined yesterday for speeding at 98mph.

The Dundee-born 61-year-old was caught in a police radar trap in July.

He was clocked in a 70mph zone on the A90 between Aberdeen and Dundee at Gateside.

Cox - who appeared in blockbuster films The X-Men, the Bourne Identity, Braveheart and Rob Roy - was not in court.

He pleaded guilty by letter when the case was called at Angus District Court in Forfar. Depute Fiscal Nicol Gillespie told how the Emmy award-winner was caught in the speed trap shortly after 10am when the road was relatively quiet and conditions were good.

He was fined £200 - reduced from £250 for entering an early guilty plea - and given 28 days to pay.

Ironically, among Cox's TV roles, he has appeared in Top Gear's Star In A Reasonably Priced Car spot.

Guests are timed doing a lap of a track in a Chevrolet Lacetti. Cox's circuit is ranked second-slowest.